My fav western film has to be-The Good The Bad And The Ugly.
The film is just amazing from the story,soundtrack,scenery and the cool acting of Clint Eastwood and also the stand at the end of the film is probably the greatest ending to any film ever made..
I'm not a big western fan myself. I remember way back seeing "High Noon" with Gary Cooper (with my family) which was good. I remember seeing Roy Rogers, Hop-a-Long Cassidy on tv.
However, if I had to pick a western though, I'd probably go with "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" too. I also liked Eastwood's "Hang 'Em High" and if you call it part of the Western genre, I'd even prefer Eastwood's "The Beguiled". Not many will agree with me, but I really liked the movie.
I've always liked "The Quick and the Dead" with Leonardo DiCaprio, Gene Hackman, Sharon Stone and Russell Crowe. I thought the cast was very good and the eventual reveal of why "Lady" had come to town was interesting enough. And nobody can play evil like Gene Hackman.
One neglected western is The Big Country with Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives, and Jeam Simmons. Great performances, the eastern comes west theme, and a rousing score.
RED RIVER-John Wayne cant knock that.It was a 4 star flick and some serious cattle drive scenes,etc. Any old black and white outlaw,indian,cowboy films.
I don't really have a favorite western but do have a preference for Once Upon A Time In America and The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly. Ennio Morricone.
How about My Darling Clementine? The Searchers? Ride The High Country? The Last Train From Gun Hill? Posse (original directed by Kirk Douglas)? The Great Silence?
I brought "Butch Cassidy and sundance kid" a while ago but still yet to watch it..
great movie
I finally got round to watching this movie after owning it on DVD for a couple of years, was a great film, Newman and Redford made a great pairing. I especially liked the chase in the movie.
John Wayne made some really interesting later Westerns, like El Dorado, True Grit, The Cowboys, and The Shootist. John Ford directed Wayne and Henry Fonda in Fort Apache.
Lonesome Dove is tremendous. The novel by Larry McMurtry is also great. McMurtry's original idea was that it would be a screenplay for Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, and Henry Fonda, but Wayne dropped out.
I'm a big fan of the Clint Eastwood westerns. Of them I like "Outlaw Josey Wales" best, followed closely by "High Plains Drifter" and "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly". The whipping scene in "High Plains Drifter" bothers me everytime. Did you know the innkeepers wife is Dean Wormers wife from Animal House?
I'm a big fan of the Clint Eastwood westerns. Of them I like "Outlaw Josey Wales" best, followed closely by "High Plains Drifter" and "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly". The whipping scene in "High Plains Drifter" bothers me everytime. Did you know the innkeepers wife is Dean Wormers wife from Animal House?
DM, yes Clint, Hang them High, Fist full of Dollars ! For a Few Dollars More,Joe Kidd, and on and on !
And no I did not know the innkeepers wife is from Animal House ! We all learn each and every day ! Thanks for sharing !
I also like TOMBSTONE ! Kurt Russell, and Val Kilmer, Val Kilmer lost 60-80 lbs to play this part but he was great in it ! I loved the way he could do that there shot tin around like Johnny Ringo !
I have not watched much western movies but Cowboys & Aliens is one of the best western movie i ever watched. I watched this movie with my friends and i enjoyed it.
The Warrior's Way is one of favorite Western movie for me i ever watched. I love this movie. I have watched this movie more than 4 time and enjoyed it. I love the story of this movie.
I have a great fondness for the John Wayne version of True Grit. First, it's a very good story about how people who are very different on the surface can be very similar inside.
Second, it's set in Oklahoma, but they filmed it in various places of dramatic scenery and didn't even try to pick locations that could pass for Oklahoma:
High noon was a more modern western? The Gary cooper movie? It was made in the 50s.
Didn't say High Noon was modern. I said i prefer modern Spaghetti westerns, which i think is pretty clear since 4 out of my 5 favourites are post 50s and 3 are spaghetti westerns.
I said Eli Wallach was the best Jew that played a fake Mexican in Good, the bad and the ugly and I saved the best for last. The Magnificent Seven and he could ride a horse no stunt double.
I said Eli Wallach was the best Jew that played a fake Mexican in Good, the bad and the ugly and I saved the best for last. The Magnificent Seven and he could ride a horse no stunt double.
James Caan was a professional rodeo cowboy in real life. And he's Jewish.
Yep The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is better than the Magnificent Seven. For a Few Dollars More I might like better than that. I thought the Eastwood/Van Cleef combo was the best out there (as evidenced in TGTBATU).
Yep The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is better than the Magnificent Seven. For a Few Dollars More I might like better than that. I thought the Eastwood/Van Cleef combo was the best out there (as evidenced in TGTBATU).
I personally preffered A Fistful of Dollars to For a Few Dollars More. And preffered Yojimbo which AFOD is based on to any of the Dollars trilogy.
The guy in this picture was also in Honeymoon in Vegas he was the leader of the flying Elvis's.
Incidently, they are going to make a play on the movie HoneyMoon in Vegas my wife told me. I called up my friend Johnny about it if he did not know. He was in that movie. I thought it would be cool if he tried to get the same part in the play. So he can move back here so we can hang out together again.
The three favourite John Wayne movies for me are Rio Bravo, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and The Shootist. Clint Eastwood are A Fist of Dollars, High Plains Drifter, and Unforgiven.
Other favourites The Wild Bunch, The Shooting, One-Eyed Jacks, Seven Men From Now, and Little Big Man.
The three favourite John Wayne movies for me are Rio Bravo, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and The Shootist. Clint Eastwood are A Fist of Dollars, High Plains Drifter, and Unforgiven.
Other favourites The Wild Bunch, The Shooting, One-Eyed Jacks, Seven Men From Now, and Little Big Man.
A co-worker and I got into a fun but heated argument on who's better John Wayne or Clint Eastwood he is a big fan of John wayne I have always preferred Clint.
John Waynes westerns have always put me to sleep, I find them very boring.
I forgot to include Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid from my earlier list.
I apologize if it has been said. But my favorite hands down is Rio Bravo with Dean Martin and John Wayne. All around great movie and I always loved the final shootout.
High Noon is a top 10 Western for me. I don't think i've seen a quarter as much as the regular contributors to this and the Western TV thread, but i've been watching alot more in the last few months.
One person i've really took to is John Ford, i know a common criticism of him is that his movies are boring, but the cinematography in his films are practically unmatched even today. Watching him film the exact same Desert landscape time after time, is breathtaking. I currently own Stagecoach and My Darling Clementine on Criterion and i'll be the first in line for The Searchers when it's finally released on Criterion; as well as The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance which i watched for the first time just last night.
Out of interest anyone here watched his other Criterion release; Young Mr.Lincoln, and if so is it worth buying?
One person i've really took to is John Ford, i know a common criticism of him is that his movies are boring, but the cinematography in his films are practically unmatched even today. Watching him film the exact same Desert landscape time after time, is breathtaking.
I love Ford, too. It's obvious that sometimes he made a conscious decision to show an extended long shot without any regard to how that might slow down the action.
It's an off-the-wall connection, but Luchino Visconti's filming of Sicily in Burt Lancaster's "The Leopard" (another Criterion film) reminded me a lot of a Ford film.
I think if there were a critics poll taken that most of them would put in the top five, maybe even three, as far as westerns go. The reviews that the film gets are stellar to this day.
It has flaws. For one thing, Gary Cooper was a little too old for the part---or Grace Kelly was too young, take your pick. He had almost thirty full years on her, and in some close shots it really shows. But I guess stranger things have happened. It just doesn't happen too much when the older man isn't named Trump lol.
Great movie. My favorite western is still "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral." It's probably an inferior film, and they took A LOT of liberties with the real-life story. But there's just something about Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster together that brings it all together for me.
Binni he does have a daughter in the business. He was not a real dancer he was a gymnast. he took dancing lessons before the movie was shot. There was no gymnastics in the original play.
Or in the movie during the filming of the movie. Tamblyn asked that it be put in and was told no. Then Tony Modante who was a dancer one of the jets and choreographer took over the choreography in the movie and told Russ yes.
Then they had a new Broadway production of West side story. Russ went to see it and it had the gymnastics in it. After the play Russ asked the lead about it. He told him to get the part the actor had to do gymnastics.
I think if there were a critics poll taken that most of them would put in the top five, maybe even three, as far as westerns go. The reviews that the film gets are stellar to this day.
It has flaws. For one thing, Gary Cooper was a little too old for the part---or Grace Kelly was too young, take your pick. He had almost thirty full years on her, and in some close shots it really shows. But I guess stranger things have happened. It just doesn't happen too much when the older man isn't named Trump lol.
Kelly and Cooper had quite the notorious affair while making High Noon, so I guess if your name is Cooper it happens too
I'm with the above poster that mentioned Lonesome Dove. My absolute favorite western.
There are so many good westerns. One of my favorites is The Big Country with Gregory Peck and Charleston Heston, and Chuck Connors before he became The Rifleman. I saw it when I was a kid. There's a fight scene at night between Heston and Peck out in a field. At the time I couldn't understand why the scene looked like it was filmed in the middle of the day because it was so well lit. That was before I realized that the fight probably took place under a full moon.
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